http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress) -- What’s fashionable, but sometimes fatal? Sun tanning, apparently – at least among well-off young white women. In the United States, more than 90 percent of the most deadly skin cancers – malignant melanomas – occur in the white population. Among young women the incidence is rising most rapidly. The risk of melanoma already has more than doubled among girls and women ages 15 to 39 over the past three decades. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-deadly-skin-cancers-young-women.html Cancer Wed, 11 May 2011 08:39:12 EST news224321698 Although some people believe that taking selenium can reduce a person's risk of cancer, a Cochrane Systematic Review of randomised controlled clinical trials found no protective effect against non-melanoma skin cancer or prostate cancer. In addition, there is some indication that taking selenium over a long period of time could have toxic effects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-additional-selenium-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 11 May 2011 03:57:34 EST news224304993